Dear David,
That looks awesome. All my wiki pages should be so cluttered!
What you describe goes well beyond the level of effort we bandied about in
Montpellier. (I know you're well aware of the this, but I think it
will bear repeating a number of times. For the bioblitz to be successful
as a TDWG event, it will need at least as much enthusiasm from TDWG
attendess as from the local organizers.)
I'll try to separate out those of your proposals that would apply
to any venue (e.g. "submit all photos to the EOL Flickr group,
and use the MRTG annotation tool to enhance the metadata"), from those
that are Woods Hole specific (e.g. "snorkeling in the eelgrass meadow").
I'll add the "generic" ideas to the wiki, and also add a pointer to your
Woods Hole page, together with a summary.
Thanks for putting so much thought into this - I look forward to
following up.
Regards -
Joel.
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, David Remsen wrote:
> Dear Joel
>
> A BioBlitz is a fantastic idea. I understand that Woods Hole, MA is one of
> the possible venues for the 2010 and, because it is my hometown I couldn't
> help but think through the opportunity Woods Hole would present for holding a
> TDWG associated BioBlitz. It could really be an event there and Woods Hole
> offers a lot of reasons to host it.
>
> Rather than clutter up the wiki page I assembled some thoughts on a Google
> Doc page at
>
> http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgmbb297_673gvb58nfg
>
> I could probably help organise this if TDWG is interested and, with enough
> leeway, I could probably get the community really lined up behind it. As I
> mention in the document I know many of the directors of the institutions
> there, in fact we are hosting two at GBIF this week in Copenhagen. Gary
> Borisy (MBL director) is on the Executive Board of EOL so I would imagine
> they would really get behind it being at their doorstep.
>
> Anyhow, Id be really excited to get involved if there is interest so please
> check out what I assembled and see if there is any followup.
>
> Best,
> David Remsen
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:51 PM, joel sachs wrote:
>
>> Greetings TDWG,
>>
>> One of the outcomes of our citizen science working session in Montpellier
>> is the idea of holding a mini-bioblitz near the conference center at TDWG
>> 2010. We thought this would be fun, would bring communities together, and
>> would be an opportunity to eat our own dog food, since so much TDWG
>> technology could be brought to bare. I think we're going to do it.
>> We've started discussion here:
>> http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/BioBlitz2010
>>
>> Please join the discussion by adding ideas, questions, and concerns. Also,
>> if you have experience in, or enthusiasm for, bioblitz-type activities,
>> please consider volunteering to help with planning and execution.
>>
>> Best to all -
>> Joel.
>>
>>
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Hi Jerry.
My thinking/understanding is that this should be closer to the NZ-style Bioblitz but really something even less rigorous. The discussions I had with Joel in Montpellier were around simply using TDWG attendees to photograph as many species as they can in the vicinity of the venue, getting those images up with geolocations and then crowdsourcing (from the attendees and/or their friends anywhere else) identifications and other notes on the images.
This would be a chance to play around collaboratively with image management, image metadata, annotations, etc. The final product could be a .kmz or something with all the images and associated data.
Such an approach, if packaged, could work really well for schools.
Donald
Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of Living Australia
CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601
Phone: (02) 62464352 Mobile: 0437990208
Email: Donald.Hobern(a)csiro.au
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Greetings TDWG,
One of the outcomes of our citizen science working session in Montpellier
is the idea of holding a mini-bioblitz near the conference center at TDWG
2010. We thought this would be fun, would bring communities together, and
would be an opportunity to eat our own dog food, since so much TDWG
technology could be brought to bare. I think we're going to do it.
We've started discussion here:
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/BioBlitz2010
Please join the discussion by adding ideas, questions, and concerns. Also,
if you have experience in, or enthusiasm for, bioblitz-type activities,
please consider volunteering to help with planning and execution.
Best to all -
Joel.
